Diogo Rau to Join Lilly as Senior VP, CIO

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Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE: LLY) announced that Diogo Rau will join the company next month as senior vice president and chief information and digital officer. Rau will take over for Aarti Shah, whose planned retirement was announced last year after 27 years with the company.

“We are excited to welcome Diogo as the new leader of Lilly’s information technology and digital capabilities, as we deepen our corporate-wide use of data, analytics and machine learning, and fully leverage the power of digital capabilities to enhance experiences and outcomes for people that use our medicines,” said David A. Ricks, Lilly’s chairman and chief executive officer. “Diogo’s expertise and leadership roles at Apple, along with his extensive experience in guiding technology strategy, will be invaluable to Lilly as we change how we discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize innovative new medicines to meet the increasing expectations of patients, physicians, and health care systems.”

Rau most recently served as the top executive of information technology for retail and online stores at Apple Inc. During his 10 years at Apple, Lilly says he led the development and implementation of the technology supporting the Apple Online Store and Apple retail stores, including the e-commerce platform, mobile point of sale, the Apple Store App, and systems used by store team members.

“I am very pleased to join the Lilly team at such an amazing time,” Rau said. “Machine learning can open so many opportunities, and technology can strengthen our relationship with patients and physicians. I greatly admire Lilly’s mission and values, and I look forward to contributing to the company’s longstanding record of innovation.”

Rau began his career as a consultant at A.T. Kearney and later founded GiftGateway, a software company that brought rewards and recognition online.